[Peace-discuss] Bob Hostetter, Teach-in, Call for Actors

[David Green]

Dear friends: I'm forwarding this message from Chicago
for three reasons. First, to provide a little more
information about Bob Hostetter, who will be speaking
at the AWARE teach-in on Sept. 8th, 1:30-4:30,
McKinley Foundation. Second, so that this information
(and news about the teach-in, including Ahmed Bensouda
and Jeff Guntzel of Voices in the Wilderness), will be
forwarded to potentially interested Muslim, Arab, and
Palestinian students and others. Third, in the outside
chance that there is somebody interested in performing
for the video described below. Thanks for your
attention.

Message: 1
   Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 10:54:41 -0500
   From: Aliza Becker <azbecker at mindspring.com>
Subject: Seeking actors to portray peace activists
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>
>AUDITION FOR LONGING VIDEO
>
>THE LONGING, adapted by Robert Hostetter
(Northwestern, 1985) from his 
oral
>history interviews with Palestinians and Israelis,
has been performed 
twenty
>times from Chicago to Atlanta over the last three
years.  Now we are 
adapting
>the two-hour play into a broadcast quality one-hour
video, combining 
scenes
>from the play with documentary footage.   We are
beginning with a 
fifteen
>minute demo.
>
>Robert Hostetter, professor of Communication Arts at
North Park 
University in
>Chicago, is adapting his play, and HMS Media is doing
the video work.  
HMS
>Media has produced and broadcast (Ch. 11) outstanding
documentaries of 
Second
>City (SECOND TO NONE), Steppenwolf Theatre
(STEPPENWOLF THEATRE 
COMPANY:
>TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ON THE EDGE) and dance companies
(RIVER NORTH 
RISING).
>
>This notice currently appears in PERFORMINK:
>
>SEEKING MEN AND WOMEN (18-55) to play Palestinian
peace activists 
(Middle
>Eastern looking) and Israeli peace activists and
soldiers for video
>adaptation of THE LONGING, by Host Productions and
HMS Media.  Send 
picture
>and resume to Robert Hostetter, North Park
University, 3225 W. Foster,
>Chicago, IL 60625.  Audition Monday, September 16 and
shoot two scenes 
Oct.
>5.  Will receive some pay and broadcast quality demo
tape.  Contact 
Robert
>Hostetter, rhostetter at northpark.edu, or  773-244-5666
to schedule 
audition.
>
>To produce a broadcast quality, fifteen-minute video
demo, we seek
>outstanding actors who fit the these more specific
descriptions:
>
>     SALIM: (40-48) an employee of the Palestinian
Ministry of 
Industry and
>peace activist. 
>     ARABIA: (mid-40s), Salim's wife.
>JEFF: (35-55) an American-born Israeli peace
activist--anthropologist 
and
>founder of
>the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions.
>     ARIK:  (35-50) founder of Rabbis for Human
Rights
>     ADMINISTRATOR:  (30-55) a civil administrator
for the Israeli 
Interior
>Ministry
>     ISRAELI OFFICER: (25-35)
>
>     CEDAR: (35-55) a Palestinian Christian peace
activist
>     SAMIR: (17-19) Cedar son and Palestinian high
school student
>     CEDAR'S HUSBAND (35-55) Palestinian Anglican
priest
>     ISRAELI OFFICER: (25-35) born in the US
>
>"Middle Eastern looking" actors may also include
"Mediterranean
>looking"--Spanish, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Iranian,
and so forth.
>
>Please send a picture and resume as soon as possible
to:
>     Robert Hostetter
>     North Park University
>     3225 W. Foster Ave.
>     Chicago, IL 60625



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